Show ‘n Tell presents: It’s all a Game!
May 10 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 8:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, repeating until May 26, 2024
| Show ‘n Tell, in collaboration with The Garage Theatre, are excited to announce their exciting new show: It’s all a Game! This is the second installment of Show ‘n Tell’s performative art series. This series strives to cultivate a deeper sense of community for Long Beach artists, by creating accessible performance opportunities and initiating discussion about the art-making process. Each installment provides a prompt or theme for creators to work and present whatever stems from it! It’s all a Game invites the audience to experience how games activate our sense of play for play’s sake – from nostalgia and loneliness to house rules and competition – roll the dice, it’s your turn!
Each week a new theme. Each weekend has new presenters. Each day will have some improvised surprises. It’s all a Game Presenting artists May 10th: Presenting artists May 17th: Presenting artists May 18th: Presenting artists May 24th: Presenting artists May 25th: This series provides a unique space for Long Beach artists to collaborate with one another in a way that may never have come to fruition otherwise. Although there are many opportunities for artmaking in the greater Los Angeles area, there are very few in Long Beach, which happens to be home to a bright art community. Show ‘n Tell’s dream is to continue to see these collaborations blossom across disciplines which will inherently enrich and elevate each other and our creative endeavors. The Garage Theatre has been cultivating a wonderful relationship with fellow CSULB alums and movement phenoms Show ‘n Tell, to bring you yearly installments of original dance works. Last year, they were finally able to offer up their theatre for the premiere of Show ‘n Tell’s series, entitled Making House. This collaboration started in 2018, when Katelyn Sanchez and two other CSULB dance Alumni curated a show at The Garage Theatre. Matt Julian, a Garage Theatre company member, guided them through the process of producing a show in the space. In 2019, Alex Rix started massage school and discovered one of her classmates, Matt Anderson, was a co-founder of the theatre. Through these small connections, and the dream to bring more accessible performance opportunities to Long Beach, Show ‘n Tell reached out to the Garage, hoping that the space could become home to their idea. Show ‘n Tell’s mission toward collaboration, cultivation of community, and creation aligned with the mission of The Garage Theatre, and a great partnership was formed. The fact that CSULB is the Alma Mater for so many of the artists involved is just an added connection they get to share. Located in downtown Long Beach, The Garage Theatre is a black box theatre, founded in the Later in the 2024 season, The Garage Theatre audiences can look forward to seeing… We’ll see you there! |
